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| Blog | Matt Layman |
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| Posts | 223 |
April 18, 2024 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, I built the import view that is needed to allow users to add their own journal entries to JourneyInbox. After completing that, I handled the pull requests from dependabot, then I worked on some quality of life to do better handling with beta user trials.
Read MoreApril 18, 2024 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
Why would someone pick Django over Flask? That’s the question that I got on stream and here is my answer.
Read MoreApril 4, 2024 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we added flash messages (after a rough start with some networking issues). Then I tracked down a thorny issue. We found that there is a non-breaking space with ’timesince’ that affects the encoding and what links Gmail adds to emails.
Read MoreMarch 28, 2024 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we attacked the issue list. JourneyInbox is live and serving user and now it’s time to start polishing and building the full set of features. There are so many easy targets to fix that we focused on a few clear improvements to user experience and the user interface.
Read MoreMarch 21, 2024 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we had a bunch of issues to resolve post-launch. I set the code that causes trials to expire, made updates to who receives prompt emails, and added some polish to the sign up process and interface to make it clear what will happen in the flow. After those modifications, we worked through a set of smaller changes like setting up Dependabot and adding a missing database index.
Read MoreMarch 8, 2024 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we deployed all our user setup and Stripe configuration change to the live site and tested the new flows end to end. Along the way, we found a bug in djstripe as well as some final bugs in the JourneyInbox configuration that prevented things from working. This is why you test!
Read MoreMarch 7, 2024 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we completed the final features needed to get the site open for others to sign up. This included some dynamic limiting of the number of people allowed to sign up. We also had to add the template styling for the login page.
Read MoreFeb. 22, 2024 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we completed the Stripe integration. I added all the necessary test code, incorporated the webhook for handling account activation, and wrote the view that Stripe needed to redirect to on successful signup.
Read MoreFeb. 8, 2024 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we did work to get the Stripe checkout session going. We set up Stripe Product and Price objects to get the subscription plan ready and got the Stripe checkout session working mostly end-to-end
Read MoreJan. 25, 2024 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we continued on the Stripe integration. I worked on a new payments gateway interface to access the Stripe APIs needed for creating a check out session. We hit some bumps along the way because of djstripe’s new preference for putting the Stripe keys into the database exclusively.
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